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- Gustav Davis was born on 3 March 1856 in Bratislava, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer, known for Katakomby (1940), Das Protektionskind (1962) and Das unverhoffte Glück (1986). He died on 21 July 1951 in Hohenlehen, Lower Austria, Austria.
- Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 - 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain, was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of World War I, during which he became known as The Lion of Verdun (French: Le lion DE Verdun). From 1940 to 1944, during World War II, he served as head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France. Pétain, who was 84 years old in 1940, ranks as France's oldest head of state.
- Between 1887 and 1914, more than 2 million Jews, most of them desperately poor, emigrated to the United States and Canada from what later became the Soviet Bloc. Preceding them slightly was Abraham Cahan, who arrived in New York in 1882. (A convinced Socialist, he was forced to immigrate in order to avoid the roundup of dissidents that followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.) He settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and concerned himself with the welfare of the growing Jewish population. Cahan was the founding editor of The Jewish Daily Forward, a Yiddish-language newspaper that first appeared in 1897. (Now known simply as The Forward, it is still published each week, though with primarily English copy.) He was also a writer of fiction, and that is what brought him his widest audience: his stories and novels won the praise of the leading literary critics of the day.
- Duke Of Västergötland Prince Carl was born on 27 February 1861 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. He was married to Princess Ingeborg. He died on 24 October 1951 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Herman Schwab was born on 2 July 1861 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for De duivel (1918) and Helleveeg (1920). He was married to Wilhelmina Schwab-Welman. He died on 22 July 1951 in Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands.
- Martha Bernays was born on 26 July 1861 in Hamburg, Germany. She was married to Sigmund Freud. She died on 2 November 1951 in London, England, UK.
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Alfred Halm was born on 9 December 1861 in Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Rose Bernd (1919), Prinzesschen (1920) and Das Frühlingslied (1918). He died on 5 February 1951 in Berlin, Germany.- Valdemar Mäes was born on 3 April 1862 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Raske Riviera Rejsende (1924). He died on 12 June 1951.
- Cyril Maude was born on 24 April 1862 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Grumpy (1930), Peer Gynt (1915) and Orders Is Orders (1933). He was married to Mrs. P.H. Trew and Winifred Emery. He died on 20 February 1951 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.
- Ella Reeve was born on 8 July 1862 in Mariner's Harbor, Staten Island, New York, USA. She was married to Andrew Omholt, Louis Cohen and Lucien Ware. She died on 10 August 1951 in Richlandtown, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Maggie Dorsey was born on 13 October 1862 in Mansfield, Louisiana, USA. She was an actress. She died on 26 September 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Laura Woods Cushing was born on 1 January 1863 in Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rug Maker's Daughter (1915), The Victory of Conscience (1916) and Ham the Iceman (1914). She died on 18 March 1951 in San Bernardino, California, USA.
- Henry De Vere Stacpoole was born on 9 April 1863 in Kingstown, Ireland. Henry De Vere was a writer, known for The Blue Lagoon (1980), The Truth About Spring (1965) and Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991). Henry De Vere was married to Florence Robson and Margaret Robson. Henry De Vere died on 12 April 1951 in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England, UK.
- Laura Winston was born on 19 April 1863 in Nevada, USA. She was an actress, known for Aladdin from Broadway (1917), Should She Obey? (1917) and The Planter (1917). She was married to ? Van Dyke. She died on 10 April 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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William Randolph Hearst was the greatest newspaper baron in the history of the United States and is the person whom Citizen Kane (1941), widely regarded as the greatest film ever made, is primarily based on. While there are many similarities between Charles Foster Kane, as limned by the great Orson Welles and his screenwriter, Herman J. Mankiewicz (who knew Hearst), there are many dissimilarities also.
He was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California, the only child of the multi-millionaire miner George Hearst and his wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Mrs. Hearst was a former school-teacher with refined manners who was over 20 years her husband's junior. Phoebe spoiled William Randolph, who was raised with personal tutors and sent to the most elite prep schools back East. He attended Harvard College but was expelled in 1885.
When he was 23 years old, William Randolph asked his father if he could take over the daily operation of the "San Francisco Examiner," a newspaper that George had acquired as payment for a gambling debt. His father relented and William Randolph took over, styling himself as its "Proprietor." The "Examiner," which he grandly called "The Monarch of the Dailies" on its masthead, was the first of many newspapers that the young Hearst would come to run, and the first where he indulged his appetite for sensationalistic, attention-getting, circulation-boosting news stories.
When his father George died, Phoebe Hearst liquidated the family mining assets to fund her son's acquisition of the ailing "New York Morning Journal." (The family continued to own forest products and petroleum properties.) Ruthless and driven, the aggressive Hearst willed the "Morning Journal" into becoming the best newspaper in New York City, hiring the best executives and finest reporters from the competition. In the style of yellow-news baron Joseph Pulitzer, with whom he now went into direct competition, Hearst introduced an in-your-face, outrageous editorial content that attracted a new market of readers. Though the term "Yellow Journalism" was originally coined to describe the practices of Pulitzer, Hearst proved adept at it. Hearst responded to the request of illustrator Frederic Remington, who had been detailed to Havana in 1898 in anticipation of something big, to return to the States with a terse message: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."
After the U.S.S. Maine was blown-up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, Hearst called the Journal city desk and demanded that the front page prominently play up the incident as the sinking of the American battleship meant war. The Journal began immediately running banner headlines proclaiming "War? Sure!" to inflame the public and pressure the government of President William McKinley to proclaim war against Spain. (Some critics accused Hearst of being indirectly responsible for McKinley's assassination as he had published a poem by Ambrose Bierce that seemed to call for such an act.)
The Spanish-American War became the Journal's war just as Vietnam was the television network's war. Ernest L. Meyer wrote about Hearst's journalistic standards: "Mr. Hearst in his long and not laudable career has inflamed Americans against Spaniards, Americans against Japanese, Americans against Filipinos, Americans against Russians, and in the pursuit of his incendiary campaign he has printed downright lies, forged documents, faked atrocity stories, inflammatory editorials, sensational cartoons and photographs and other devices by which he abetted his jingoistic ends."
Hearst added Chicago to his domain, acquiring the "Chicago American" in 1900 and the "Chicago Examiner" in 1902. The "Boston American" and the "Los Angeles Examiner" were acquired in 1904, firmly establishing the media empire that in its heyday during the 1920s, consisted of 20 daily and 11 Sunday newspapers in 13 cities, the King Features syndication service, the International News Service, and the American Weekly (Sunday syndicated supplement). One in four Americans in the '20s read a Hearst newspaper daily. His media empire also included International News Reel and the movie production company Cosmopolitan Pictures, plus a number of national magazines, including "Cosmopolitan," "Good Housekeeping" and "Harper's Bazaar." In 1924, he opened the "New York Daily Mirror," a racy tabloid that was an imitation of the innovative "New York Daily News," which ran many photographs to illustrate its lurid reporting.
Unlike Charles Foster Kane, Willaim Randolph Hearst never married the niece of the president of the United States. The closest he got to a president other than socializing with one was marrying Millicent Wilson, who shared the name of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). The nuptials took place the day before he turned 40. His family opposed his marriage to Millicent, who was a 21-year-old showgirl whom he had known for many years. Before Millicent, he had been involved with Tessie Powers, a waitress he had financially supported since he had attended Harvard and trysted with her while still sporting the college's beanie. Hearst's personal life often was featured in stories that his competitors, the tabloid newspapers, ran during his lifetime, the kind of press he would have no moral qualms about if the proverbial shoe were on the other foot and it was someone else's other than his ox being gored. (So much for his moral outrage over Citizen Kane (1941).) He and Millicent had five sons, but Hearst took another showgirl, 20-year-old Marion Davies of the Ziefgeld Follies, as his mistress. She was 34 years his junior. It was a relationship that lasted until the end of his life.
Hearst used his media power to get himself twice elected to Congress as a member of House of Representatives (1903-1905; and 1905-1907) as a progressive, if not radical Democrat. However, he failed in his two bids to become mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, and was defeated by the Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes in his attempt to become governor of New York State in (1906). He supported the Spanish-American War - many observers believe he even was the casus belli of that conflict - but opposed the U.S. entry into World War One as he despised the British Empire. He also opposed President Wilson's formation of the League of Nations and American membership in the organization.
By the time of the First World War, his political ambitions frustrated, he decided to live openly with Davies in California and at a castle he bought in Wales. His wife and children remained in New York, where Hearst became known as a leading philanthropist, creating the Free Milk Fund for the poor in 1921. They officially separated in 1926.
Hearst spent many years and a fortune promoting Marion Davies' film career. According to the great critic Pauline Kael, Davies was a first-rate light comedienne, but Hearst wanted her to play the classical roles of a tragedienne, with the result that he pushed her into movies that were ill-suited for her, and that made her look ridiculous. She was not, however, the talentless drunk that Charles Foster Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander was. (Orson Welles said that his only regret over Citizen Kane (1941) was the backlash and grief caused to Davies, who was a woman adored by everyone who knew her. Davies nephew actually was the step-father of Welles' first child.)
Phoebe Hearst died in 1919, and Hearst moved onto the family's 268,000-acre San Simeon Ranch in southern California. On 127 acres overlooking the California coast north of Cambria, he built what is now called Hearst Castle but that he called "La Cuesta Encantada." Starting in 1922, and not finished until 1947, the 165-room mansion was built by an army of craftsmen and laborers. The mansion -- which cost approximately $37 million to build -- was not ready for full-time occupancy until 1927, and additions to the main building continued for another 20 years. At La Cuesta Encantada, Hearst entertained the creme de la creme of Hollywood and the world, whom he treated to his hospitality among his personal art collection valued at over $50 million, the largest ever assembled by any private individual. He could live openly in California with Davies.
Along with his sensationalism and jingoism, William Randold Hearst was a racist who hated minorities, particularly Mexicans, both native-born and immigrants. He used his newspaper chain to frequently stir up racial tensions. Hearst's newspapers portrayed Mexicans as lazy, degenerate and violent, marijuana-smokers who stole jobs from "real Americans." Hearst's hatred of Mexicans and his hyping of the "Mexican threat" to America likely was rooted in the 800,000 acres of timberland that had been confiscated from him by Pancho Villa during the Mexican revolution.
The Great Depression hurt Hearst financially, and he never recovered from it. At one point, his financial distress was so great, his mistress, Marion Davies, had to pawn some of her jewels to get him the cash to keep him afloat. The Hearst media empire has reached its zenith in terms of circulation and revenues the year before the Stockmarket Crash of October 1929, but the huge over-extension of the Hearst media empire eventually cost him control of his holdings. Hearst's newspaper chain likely had never been profitable, but had been supported by the income from his mining, ranching and forest products interests. All of Hearst's business interests were adversely affected by the economic downturn, but the newspapers were hit particularly hard due to the decline in advertising revenues, the life's blood of any newspaper. His bellicose and eccentric behavior only made matters worse.
By the time Franklin D. Roosevelt exerted himself over the U.S. economy, Hearst had become a reactionary. He had produced a film, Gabriel Over the White House (1933) starring Walter Huston as a presidential messiah, but Roosevelt, apparently, wasn't his kind of Christ-figure. In the movie, President 'Judd' Hammond exercised near dictatorial powers, including apparently ordering summary executions of gangsters; this may have gone over well in corporate America, but hardly was a management paradigm for a working democracy. However, Roosevelt's attempts to centralize power in government and industry cartels to combat the Depression were eventually repudiated by Hearst. His anti-Roosevelt stance, trumpeted by his papers, proved unpopular with the common man who was his primary readership.
Once, he had served as the self-appointed tribune of the common man, and his progressive politics was denounced by the plutocrats as radical, but by the 1930s, Hearst was flirting with Fascism. The Hearst papers carried paid-for columns by both Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, though Hearst claimed that he was only an anti-Communist. However, during a continental tour with Marion Davies, Hearst actually attended the Nuremberg rally of 1934. He later completed a newsreel deal with Hitler during the trip. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of course, was as staunchly anti-fascist as Hearst was anti-communist. His pro-intervention policies on the side of Britian during the early days of World War Two rankled the philo-German Hearst.
Hearst had a complicated relationship with Roosevelt, whom he helped obtain the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination (as a moderate). Hearst fluctuated between endorsing and attacking F.D.R. and his New Deal. In public, Roosevelt, on his part, would woo Hearst with invitations to the White House, obtaining a temporary truce, while in private, Roosevelt complained of Hearst's power and had his income taxes investigated. In 1934, Hearst launched a virulent anti-communist witch-hunt that would last for 20 years in which he tarred New Deal supporters as reds, then ended up labeling F.D.R. himself a communist. In response to his red-baiting, liberals and leftists retaliated with a boycott of Hearst newspapers.
Hearst had become a major liability to the Hearst Corp. by the mid-1930s as he became more noxious. He had started out as a populist, but had veered right in the 1920s, then tacked left in the early 1930s, only to veer to the far right beginning in the mid-'30s. Always a maverick, Hearst might have been psychologically unable to maintain a constant position; unable or unwilling to reign in his ego and support those in power, he could never stay allies with anyone for long, and thus regularly shifted positions. As Roosevelt went left, Hearst went right. Apparently, as his flirtation with fascism elucidates, he had cast himself as the savior of America in his own mind.
The economic result of Hearst's shift to the right (which also may have been influenced by his need to cajole financiers, who decidedly were anti-Roosevelt) was that advertising sales and circulation declined, just as millions in debt came due and had to be refinanced. In 1936, Hearst's efforts to raise more capital by floating a new bond issue was stymied by his creditors, with the result that he was unable to service the Hearst Corp.'s debts. The Hearst Corp. went into receivership and was reorganized, and William Randolph Hearst was reduced to the status of an employee, with a court-appointed overseer. A liquidation of Heart Corp. assets began, and newspapers were shed, Cosmopolitan Pictures was terminated, and there was an auctioning off of his art and antiquities. Hearst, the media baron of unparalleled power, was through as a major independent power in American politics and culture.
However, he still retained enough clout with his remaining newspapers (and their ability to publicize movies) in the early 1940s to make life miserable for Orson Welles after the supreme insult of his roman a clef Citizen Kane (1941). Allegedly, Hearst wasn't so much incensed at Welles as he was at Mankiewicz, a friend who had betrayed his secrets. ("Rosebud," the name of the Charles Foster Kane's childhood sled that supposedly is the key to his psychology but is actually a "McGuffin" around which to structure the movie's plot, was allegedly Hearst's nickname for Davies' private parts.)
The economic recovery that came with war production during World War II (which he opposed, just as he had America's entry into the First World War) buoyed the Hearst newspapers' circulation and advertising revenues, but he never returned to the prominence he had enjoyed in the old days. He did, still, have the love of Marion Davies, who was with him to the end, steadfast in her love. Hearst died in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is buried at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
More than 50 years after his death, Hearst's stature has diminished while the reputation of Citizen Kane (1941) remains secure. Interestingly, Hearst's own current, largely negative image has largely been shaped by the film, which is considered a landmark in cinematic innovation. Perhaps it was just a case of Hearst living too long, of outliving his own innovative period. As a newspaper publisher, Hearst promoted innovative writers and cartoonists despite the indifference of his readers. George Herriman, the creator of the comic strip "Krazy Kat," was a Hearst favorite; Hearst even produced Krazy Kat movie shorts. "Krazy Kat" was not especially popular with readers, but it is now considered to be a classic and a watershed of that increasing respected art form. On the negative side, the sensationalistic, border-line fabricated, over-hyped journalistic paradigm that Hearst championed through his perfection of modern yellow journalism, a paradigm he made standard newspaper fare for over half-a-century, lives on in today's media.- Actor
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Horace Hodges was born on 19 December 1863 in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Jamaica Inn (1939), After Dark (1932) and Summer Lightning (1933). He died on 6 July 1951 in Petersfield, Hampshire, England, UK.- Actor
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David Torrence was the second child born out of eleven children to Henry Torrance Thomson and Janet Bryce. Davis given name was 'David Bryce Thomson." Born on Jan 17,1863 in Edinbough,Scotland. David's brother was character star 'Ernest Torrence' who was 15 years younger than David. Ernest was the first of the two to come to California and become actors. Educated in both England and Germany, David moved with equal ease from stage to screen in the early part of the 20th century. Following the completion of the classic silent films Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1913) with the legendary stage actress Minnie Maddern Fiske, and The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), however, David returned to focus on Broadway plays and enjoy life on a Mexican ranch. A steep reversal of fortunes aggravated a necessary return to Hollywood following World War I, and, fortunately for his fans, he stayed for nearly two decades. Playing a number of leads during his silent heyday, many of them men of influence, his portrayals of stern-faced villains may not have rivaled that of brother Ernest, but David made for quite a contemptible gent in a few. In his first sound picture, the historical drama Disraeli (1929), he played an austere-looking anti-Semitic head of the Bank of England whose refusal to finance the Suez canal results in action taken by Prime Minister Disraeli, played by George Arliss. David also went on to lend Arliss prime support in the comedy drama A Successful Calamity (1932), and in another biopic history lesson, Voltaire (1933). Come the advent of sound, his characters continued to prestigious characters (bankers, merchants, lawyers, and attorneys), but grew smaller in size until he faded out in unbilled parts, such as in The Dark Angel (1935) and Lost Horizon (1937). Comedy fans might remember David for his performance as Scots attorney Mr. Miggs in the Laurel and Hardy feature Bonnie Scotland (1935). His last roles included, Rulers of the Sea (1939) and Stanley and Livingstone (1939). David Torrence died Dec 26,1951 Beverly Hills, Ca. and is buried at the Inglewood Cemetery while others give 1951.- Henri Rivière was born on 11 March 1864 in Paris, France. He is known for L'oeil, le pinceau et le cinématographe : naissance d'un art (2021). He died on 24 August 1951 in France.
- John Alexander was born on 13 September 1864. He was an actor, known for The Petrified Forest (1936) and Men in Exile (1937). He died on 5 April 1951 in Ontario, Canada.
- George Currie was born on 28 February 1865 in Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for It's the Old Army Game (1926). He died on 26 January 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Abel Tarride was born on 18 April 1865 in Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le chien jaune (1932), Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935) and Pour vivre heureux (1932). He died on 3 February 1951 in Lyon, Rhône, France.- Alfred Hugenberg was born on 19 June 1865 in Hannover, Germany. He was a producer, known for Un mauvais garçon (1936) and Deutschland erwacht - Ein Dokument von der Wiedergeburt Deutschlands (1933). He was married to Gertrud Adickes. He died on 12 March 1951 in Kükenbruch, Lower Saxony, West Germany.
- Robert Kahn was born on 21 July 1865 in Mannheim, Germany. He was married to Katharina Hertel. He died on 29 May 1951 in Biddenden, Kent, England, UK.
- Cardinal Dennis Dougherty was born on 16 August 1865 in Honesville, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 31 May 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Charles Dawes was born on 27 August 1865 in Marietta, Ohio, USA. He was married to Caro D. Blymver. He died on 23 April 1951 in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
- Paul Gavault was born on 1 September 1865 in Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]. He was a writer, known for The Richest Girl (1918), Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme (1914) and L'enfant du miracle (1932). He died on 25 December 1951 in Paris, France.
- Queen Amélie was born on 28 September 1865 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK. She was married to King Carlos. She died on 25 October 1951 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, France.
- Bliss Chevalier was born on 15 November 1865 in New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Biggest Show on Earth (1918), What Money Can't Buy (1917) and Betty Takes a Hand (1918). She died on 25 July 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Elizabeth Chandler Hendrix was born on 20 January 1866 in Virginia, USA. She was a writer, known for Polly Put the Kettle On (1917). She died on 23 June 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Boston-born (1866) humorist Gelett Burgess graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1887, and secured employment as a draftsman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Three years later he became an instructor in topographical drawing at the University of California. In 1894, however, he made an almost complete 180-degree change from the staid, stable work of drafting and technical drawing to become editor of the humor magazine "Wave" and the next year he became editor of "Lark", a quirky, edgy (for the times) humor magazine. It was there that his famous quatrain--often wrongly attributed to Ogden Nash--"The Purple Cows" appeared: "I never saw a purple cow / I never hope to see one / But I can tell you anyhow / I'd rather see than be one". The magazine also featured his drawings of bizarre, badly behaving creatures called "Goops", which caught on with the public. He wrote a series of books filled with his humorous observations on life in general and the battle of the sexes.
He died in Carmel, California, on September 18, 1951. - Charles Willumsen was born on 3 February 1866 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for The Steel King's Last Wish (1913), Prinsessens Tilbeder (1918) and Præstens Datter (1918). He died on 2 April 1951.
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Graham Moffat was born on 21 February 1866 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He was a writer and director, known for Till the Bells Ring (1926) and Bunty Pulls the Strings (1921). He was married to Margaret Moffat. He died on 12 December 1951 in Cape Town, South Africa.- Director
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Alf Collins was born on 16 June 1866 in Newington, London, England, UK. He was a director and actor, known for The Dancing Girl (1908), Rescued by Lifeboat (1906) and A Race for a Rose (1908). He died on 20 December 1951 in Clapham, London, England, UK.- Music Department
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G.H. Clutsam was born on 26 September 1866 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was a composer and writer, known for April Blossoms (1934), Mimi (1935) and Heart's Desire (1935). He was married to Minnie Fischer. He died on 17 November 1951 in London, England, UK.- Actor
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Frank McGlynn Sr. was born on 26 October 1866 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Captain Blood (1935), Little Miss Marker (1934) and The Plainsman (1936). He was married to Rose O'Byrne. He died on 18 May 1951 in Newburgh, New York, USA.- Godfrey Cass was born on 6 November 1866 in Beechworth, Victoria, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), When the Kellys Were Out (1923) and The Kelly Gang (1920). He died on 14 May 1951 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Hilda Pihlajamäki was born on 12 November 1866 in Kangasala, Finland. She was an actress, known for Aila, Pohjolan tytär (1951), Miehen kylkiluu (1937) and Ja alla oli tulinen järvi (1937). She was married to Aapo Pihlajamäki. She died on 23 August 1951.
- David Warfield was born on 28 November 1866 in San Francisco, California, USA. He died on 27 July 1951 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Paul Weigel was born on 18 February 1867 in Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]. He was an actor, known for The Great Dictator (1940), Me und Gott (1918) and Mademoiselle Midnight (1924). He died on 25 May 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Vasil Balanchivadze was born on 24 April 1867 in Banoja, Georgia, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Dakarguli samotkhe (1937), Qalishvili gagmidan (1941) and Chirveuli mezoblebi (1945). He died on 18 May 1951 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia].
- Gustaf Mannerheim was born on 4 June 1867 in Askainen, Finland. He was married to Anastasia Arapova. He died on 27 January 1951 in Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland.
- Bozena Slancíková-Timrava was born on 2 October 1867 in Polichno, Slovakia, Austria-Hungary [now Slovakia]. She was a writer, known for Dnes vecer hrám ja (1993), Páva (1976) and Velké stastie (2006). She died on 27 November 1951 in Lucenec, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia].
- Karel Vána was born on 29 November 1867 in Ceský Brod, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Idyla ze staré Prahy (1918), Písen zivota (1924) and Saty delaji cloveka (1913). He died on 21 May 1951 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Gregorios Xenopoulos was a novelist, journalist and playwright from Zakynthos. He was lead editor in the magazine The Education of Children during the period from 1896 to 1948, during which time he was also the magazine's main author. His was the trademark signature "Sas aspazomai, Faidon" ("Yours sincerely, Phaedon)", which he used in letters ostensibly addressed to the magazine. He was also the founder and editor of the Nea Estia magazine, which is still published. He became a member of the Academy of Athens in 1931, and founded the Society of Greek Writers together with Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Nikos Kazantzakis.
- Sabatino Lopez was born on 10 December 1867 in Leghorn, Tuscany, Italy. Sabatino was a writer, known for La buona figliola (1920), Bufere (1953) and Schiccheri è grande (1954). Sabatino died on 27 October 1951 in Milan, Italy.
- Herbert Leonard was born on 14 December 1867 in Boxmoor, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Girl of My Heart (1915). He was married to Laura Dyson. He died on 15 December 1951 in Hove, East Sussex, England, UK.
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William Barker was born on 18 January 1868 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer and producer, known for She (1916), Hamlet (1910) and Princess Clementina (1911). He was married to Mary Edwards. He died on 6 November 1951 in Wimbledon, Surrey, England, UK.- Grace Edwin was born on 22 February 1868 in Kew, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933). She died on 16 July 1951 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England, UK.
- Harry A. Hiscox was born on 23 April 1868 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Squaw Man (1914). He was married to Emma E. Hiscox. He died on 10 September 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Walter Bloem was born on 20 June 1868 in Elberfeld [now Wuppertal], Germany. He was a writer, known for Der krasse Fuchs (1926). He was married to Judith Bloem and Margarete Anna Elise Kalähne. He died on 18 August 1951 in Lübeck, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.